Indian Civil Service Exams (CSE) Syllabus - UPSC Exams

Unit I - Basic Concepts:

• Society, community, association, institution. Culture-culture change, diffusion, Cultural-tag, Cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, acculturation.
• Social Groups-primary, secondary and reference groups.
• Social structure, social system, social action.
• Status and role, role conflict, role set.
• Norms and values-conformity and deviance.
• Law and customs.
• Socio-cultural processes: Socialisation, assimilation, integration, cooperation, competition, conflict, accommodation, Social distance, relative deprivation.

Unit II - Marriage, Family and Kinship:

• Marriage: types and norms, marriage as contract, and as a sacrament.
• Family: types, functions and changes.
• Kinships: terms and usages, rules of residence, descent, inheritance.

Unit III - Social Stratification:

Forms and functions; Caste and Class. Jajmani system, purity and pollution, dominant caste, sanskritisation.

Unit IV - Types of Society:

Tribal, agrarian, industrial and post-industrial.

Unit V - Economy and Society:

Man, nature and social production, economic systems of simple and complex societies, non-economic determinants of economic behaviour, market (free) economy and controlled (planned) economy.

Unit VI - Industrial and Urban Society:

Rural-Urban Continuum, urban growth and urbanisation-town, city and metropolis; basic features of industrial society; impact of automation on society; industrialisation and environment.

Unit VII - Social Demography:

Population size, growth, composition, and distribution in India; components of population growth-births, deaths and migration; causes and consequences of population growth; population and social development; population policy.

Unit VIII - Political Processes:

Power, authority and legitimacy; political socialisation; political modernisation, pressure groups; caste and politics.

Unit IX - Weaker Section-and Minorities:

Social justice-equal opportunity and special opportunity; protective discrimination; constitutional safeguards.

Unit X - Social Change:

Theories of change; factors of change; science, technology and change. Social movements-Peasant Movement, Women's Movement, Backward Caste Movement, Dalit Movement.

Indian Civil Service Exams (CSE) Syllabus - UPSC Exams